‘A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess’s story,’ this #1 New York Moments bestseller is ‘both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting one of the most infamous feminine figure through the Odyssey like a hero in her personal right’ (Alexandra Alter, The New York Moments).

Inside your home of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest from the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is usually a unusual child–not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, about Circe she discovers that she will have power–the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves.

Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, obviously, wily Odysseus.

But there is danger, as well, for a female who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly pulls the wrath of both males and gods, ultimately locating herself pitted against perhaps one of the most terrifying and vengeful from the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, forever, whether she belongs with the gods she is delivered from, or the mortals she’s come to like.

With unforgettably vibrant characters, mesmerizing language and page-turning suspense, Circe is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, and a celebration of indomitable female strength within a man’s world.

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